Christine Elise McCarthy Catalog

BATHING & THE SINGLE GIRL

The life of an actress in LA isn’t all
glamour, money, and bedding rock stars. Sometimes it’s more about
humiliation, red wine hangovers, and the bad decisions they fuel. Ruby
Fitzgerald has barely worked in years, not that anyone remembers her for
anything but her short stint on a long-canceled but iconic TV show. But
that was back when her career prospects seemed on the upswing -- longer ago
that Ruby cares to admit, and awkward sex with regrettable partners is doing
nothing to take the edge off. Everything once functional in her house is going
on strike, but the unemployment checks barely cover the mortgage, and a
self-respecting girl needs to be able to pay her bar tab -- so repairs are on
hold. One more bubble bath and a few more cocktails. A gal can
always get responsible tomorrow.With everything mounting against her, a cranky
and increasingly despairing Ruby will have to find out if her life’s larger
indignities are the result of bad luck, or a chronically bad attitude.
What follows is a walking tour of the hilarious depths you can sink to if you
stop exercising your best judgment.BATHING & THE SINGLE GIRL is the
smutty, mercilessly irreverent and laugh-out-loud funny debut novel by actress
Christine Elise McCarthy. Based on her one-woman short film of the same
name, it’s the kind of novel Jonathan Ames might write if he’d dropped out of
college and had been working as an actress in Hollywood for the last 20 years.www.BathingandtheSingleGirl.com